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Sustainability Basics

Build practical understanding of systems thinking, resources, environmental limits, social needs, tradeoffs, and measurement, then use it for evaluating everyday and organizational sustainability choices.

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General to university foundations
Subject area
Sustainable Living
Learning outcomes
4 focused outcomes

Topic overview

Learn the foundations of Sustainability Basics.

Sustainability Basics connects systems thinking, resources, environmental limits, social needs, tradeoffs, and measurement with practical decisions and tasks. Guided examples, comparison, practice, and feedback help learners apply these ideas to evaluating everyday and organizational sustainability choices. The goal is to make each step easier to explain, check, and improve.

Learning outcomes for Sustainability Basics

  1. 1

    Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in systems thinking, resources, environmental limits, social needs, tradeoffs, and measurement

  2. 2

    Follow a repeatable process for evaluating everyday and organizational sustainability choices

  3. 3

    Compare examples, identify common mistakes, and improve an approach

  4. 4

    Complete an independent sustainability basics task and reflect on the result

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How to learn Sustainability Basics step by step.

01

Build the foundation

Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in systems thinking, resources, environmental limits, social needs, tradeoffs, and measurement

02

Practise with feedback

Follow a repeatable process for evaluating everyday and organizational sustainability choices

03

Practise with feedback

Compare examples, identify common mistakes, and improve an approach

04

Apply and reflect

Complete an independent sustainability basics task and reflect on the result

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